If you live in Utah, you are more likely to be killed by police than gangs, drug dealers or child abusers.The
Salt Lake Tribune recently reviewed records for 300 violent deaths over
a five year period, and found that deaths from police violence were the
second most common type of killing after intimate partner violence in
Utah.
Records showed that law enforcement officers were
responsible for 15 percent of the violent deaths by killing 45 people
since 2010.
Officials have found all of the killings to be
justified, except the 2012 shooting of 21-year-old Danielle Willard. On
Saturday, police responding to a trespassing report in South Jordan shot
and killed a man. That incident was still under investigation.
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